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tait@ tats atrat @frn ALBION S. SKILLIN AND GEORGE W. REED, OF PORTLAND, MAINE, ASSIGNORS TO THEM- SELVES, HENRY L. I-IANSON, AND J. L. BUTLER,OF THE SAME PLACE Leiters Patent No. 68,463, datactepicmber 3, 1867.

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TO ALL WIIOM IT MAY CONOERN:

Be it known that we, ALBION S. SKILLIN and Geenen W. REED, of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, and State of Maine, have invented :i new and useful improved Rotary NutmegfGrater; and we hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others to make and use our invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of' this specification, in which- Figure 1 shows a top plan of our invention.

Figure 2 is an edge view of the same.

The object of our invention is the production of a cheap and convenient device for grating nutmegs.

Our invention consists, first, of a stoel; or handle, haring a pocket and thimble; second, of a rotary grater. operated by a crank or handle; third, of a spring-arm, having a head which fits into the thimble.

In the accompanying drawings, a shows the stock, 11 shows the rotary gratcr, e shows the spring-arm, d the thimble, e the head o n the springhrnnf the crank or handle of the rotary grater. The head c on the springarm e can be lifted out of the thiinble d, and the arm swung` to one'side, as indicated by dotted-lines in tig. 1'. The pocket or hole through thehead of the stock a is shown by dotted lines 1 in fig. 2. The arm c may be pressed down, so that the head e thereof` will fill the pocket in the stock a. This is indicated by dotted lines`2 in fig. 2. Therotary gratcr revolves upon the pivot t.

The operation of the device is as follows: Lift the head c out et' the thimble d, and swing the arm c to one side, as shown in fig. 1 by dotted lines. Place the nutmeg in the thimble al, and return the arm and its head e back into the thiuxble. The nutmeg will then be pressed against the roughened and perforated surface, 3, fig. 1, ofthe rotary grater. The handle a is then grasped by one hand, which, at thev same time, embraces the arm c and maintains a continuous pressure ofthe head e upon the nutmeg. Revolve the gratcr b by its handle f, and

the particles of the nutmeg, falling through the perforations in the grater, are deposited wherever desired. It is evident that the nutmeg can he preserved in the thimble cZ when the device is not in use, being there retained by the arm c. The arm c can be turned aside on the pivot m.

It will be perceived that the grater I) is composed of two parts, viz, the perforated face 4, and thc flange 5, upon which the said face 4 is attached. This flange is made flaring on its inner side to allow the free escape of the ground particles ofthe nutmeg, and it may be made by cast-ing or in any convenient method.

We do not claim broadly a rotary nutmeg-grater, for this is not new, neither do we claim any arrangement of the parts constituting such a grater except the one herein shown and described. We also desire to disclaim a rotary groter composed of a metallic corrugated disk, which is the base of the cylinder, and having a lever and follower to regulate the feed ofthe machine, as exhibited in the `application of Edmund Brown and Albert Hadley, withdrawn November 18, 1854. Our invention consists of a rotary perforated grater, through which the ground particles fall upon the article upon which they are desiredv to be deposited, incombination with a handle, upon which is ai'lixed the spring-arm e, having a head, e, the arm c being capable of being lifted out of the thimbled and turned to one side, as shown in fig. 1.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement of the handle or stock a, the rotary gratcr b, spring-arm e, thimble CZ, and head e for a rotary nutmeg-grater, as Aherein set forth and described.

ALBION S. SKILLIN,

GEORGE W. REED.

Witnesses:

WM. H. CLIFFORD, HENRY C. HOUSTON. 

